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making extracts from wills in Doctors' Commons, kindly furnish me with genealogical extracts from the wills below mentioned, to enable me to unravel the tangled threads of the descent of the houses named in 2nd S. vi. 465; with the view of assisting in the compilation of my history of the houses, the pedigree of families, and biographical notes of individuals? I shall be happy to reimburse any expenditure involved in the search. And as this is a matter of private, and not public interest, and the information if inserted in "N. & Q." would only needlessly occupy valuable space, I append my address.

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CURIOUS SIGN MANUAL (3rd S. v. 436.) - In reply to H. C. I may state that, as a Land Commissioner in Turkey, I have seen the thumb dipped in ink, and applied as a signature to a conveyance or land-receipt by low-class Mussulmans, and by the rayah Greek landowners. This is a usual way; but there are few Mussulmans without a signet, such as are sold cheap in the market ready made (Mahomed, Ahmed, Mustafa, &c.); and the Greeks very often sign with a cross. It is only of late that any rayah Greek can write his name in Greek.

196▲, Piccadilly.

HYDE CLARKE.

BURTON FAMILY (3rd S. v. 140.) — May I be allowed to thank MR. SYKES for his information respecting the Burtons of Weston-under-Wood, which was particularly interesting to me, as it tended to confirm and throw light on some points in the genealogy which I was anxious to have cleared up. I should be glad to know whether any mention of the family occurs in the heraldic Visitations for Derbyshire. E. H. A. GLASS (3rd S. v. 400.)-The following extract is taken from Strype's edition of Stow's Survey of London, fol., 1720, p. 8:

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"These Saxons were likewise (as the Britons were) ignorant of the Architecture or Building with Stone, until the year of Christ DCLXXX. For there it is affirmed that Benet, Abbot of Wirral, master to the Reverend Bede, first brought Masons and Workmen in Stone into this Island among the Saxons."

This appears to give the date wanted, but the original authority is not stated. A.D. 674 is the date usually given.

W. P. LORD CLONMELL'S "DIARY" (3rd S. v. 477.)In answer to your correspondent ABHBA, relative to Lord Clonmel's Diary, I beg to say that I have

seen at least four, if not five copies of such a publication. I believe that it never was regularly sold as a publication; but was printed by Lord Clonmel for distribution solely amongst his own private friends. As an Irish judge and politician, his Lordship occupied a foremost, if not a very distinguished place. He was not a man of genius, and hardly of talent; but he acted in stormy and perilous times, and his antagonistic feeling to his great rival Lord Clare (the Irish Chancellor), induced him to put forth all his powers. From a perusal of his Diary, I should say that he was a selfish man, whose maxim was Après moi le déluge." He was a wine-bibber and a gourmand to an extravagant extent; and a great deal of his Diary is occupied with abuse of Lord Clare, and in praise or dispraise of the dinner he ate the day before.

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Some years ago (1857), Sotheby sold three copies of this unique but not very respectable production. I believe that Cambridge possesses a copy, that the Duke of Devonshire possesses another, and that, more recently, the Dublin University Library (or Dublin Society, I know not which,) has purchased another—at the enormous price of 561. EPHRAIM W. M'MINIMIE. Sadholt Cottage, Clondalkin.

ERRONEOUS MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN BRISTOL (3rd S. v. 289, 368.)- MR. PRYCE seems to doubt the identity of Col. John Porter, the eldest brother of the Misses Porter, with the "unfortunate officer," J. B. Porter, whose death in Castle Rushen prison is mentioned in the volume of the Gentleman's Magazine to which I before referred. I was always under the impression that John Porter, originally an officer in the army, having afterwards gone out as a merchant to Antigua, there fell a victim to its dangerous climate. The Bristol inscription, however, asserts that he died in the Isle of Man, though, as I have shown by an extract from one of Miss Porter's letters, the date is given incorrectly. I cannot help coming to the conclusion, that the "merchant in the West Indies," having probably been unfortu nate in business, must have returned home, and was the "J. B. Porter" noticed in Mr. Urban's

pages. The second initial probably stood for Blenkinsop, which was his mother's maiden name. Dr. Porter of Bristol is described on his first wife's tombstone at Durham, as simply William Porter, M.D., though it appears he also had a second name, viz., Ogilvie. Both John and William were early in life withdrawn from their mother's charge, which may account for the younger portion of the family not being aware perhaps of the embarrassed state of John's affairs. In referring to his decease in the above named letter, Miss Porter goes on to say, "He was not brought up with us like Robert, nevertheless we loved him as a brother, and mourn him as such." DUNELMENSIS.

JOHN HALL, B.D. (3rd S. v. 496.)-John Hall, B.A., was elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1658, commenced M.A. in due course, and proceeded B.D. 1666. On July 11, 1664, he was collated to the prebend of Isledon, in the church of St. Paul, as he was, Feb. 20, 1665-6, to the rectory of S. Christopher le Stocks, London. On Oct. 5, 1666, he was collated to the rectory of Finchley, Middlesex. On March 21, 1666-7, he exchanged the prebend of Isledon for that of Holywell, alias Finsbury. He was president of Sion College, 1694, and died towards the close of 1707. Watt thus describes his work:-"Jacob's Ladder, or a Book of Salvations (!), 8vo, London, 1676." Mr. Hall contributed to the rebuilding of St. Paul's, and was also, to a small extent, a benefactor to Sion College, but we do not find his Jacob's Ladder in Reading's Catalogue of the library of that institution.

Cambridge.

C. H. & THOMPSON COOPER.

RAINE'S MARRIAGE PORTION OF £100 (3rd S. v. 475.)—This account reminds me of a similar portion which is given by the Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends in the south of Ireland, to young women, members of the Society, who have lived for three years either as family servants, or assistants in business to members of the Society, on their marriage with members of said Society. The portion given is also 1007. L. J. F.

RICHARD BENTLEY, D.D. (3rd S. v. 509.)-Your correspondent, who is struck by the little pains ordinary readers take to verify their statements, will not, we hope, be offended at our pointing out that Richard Bentley the critic never was librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was master of that distinguished society for above forty years. Although for a long period Archdeacon of Ely, he was never Dean of Ely.

Cambridge.

C. H. & THOMPSON COOPER.

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Calendar of State Papers. Domestic Series of the Reign of Charles I., 1634-1635, preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office. Edited by John Bruce, F.S.A. (Longman.)

"The period comprised within the present volume was," as Mr. Bruce truly observes, "fertile in important changes," which are clearly reflected in the documents here calendared. No wonder, then, that such volume should be one of great importance, for the new materials which it contains for the general history of the time, as it

is scarcely of less importance for the light it throws up graphers of Sir Robert Naunton-Sir Robert Heath—g the characters of many remarkable men. Future bio

the facetious Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Sir Thomas Richardson-Sir Edward Coke (whose squabble with his second wife Lady Hatton, and his alleged breach of faith with her, as here detailed, are painful to contemplate)-Selden and Attorney-General Noy-will find in the Calendar references to papers which will be of the greatest service to them. While those who are investigating our social progress, will find abundant amusement and instruction among the various records now really first made available by this useful guide. Like all the preceding Calendars, for which we have been indebted to Mr. Bruce, the present is set off by a pleasant, instructive, and well-written Preface; and completed by a full and accurate Index.

The Plays of William Shakespeare.

Carefully edited by

Thomas Keightley. Vols. I. and II. (Bell & Daldy.) We have here the first two volumes of a Pocket Shakspeare (to be completed in six), which will be welcome to all who love to make a volume of the poet's works their companion in a quiet country stroll, or when taking their ease at their inn. Beautifully printed by Whittingham, this compact yet handsome edition puts forth the additional temptation of being edited by a gentleman who has made our older poets the study of many years. Mr. Keightley's text may not perhaps command universal acceptance, but it will be recognised by all as that of an accomplished scholar.

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INDEX.

THIRD SERIES.-VOL. V.

[For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK LORE,
PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKSPERIANA, AND SONGS AND BALLADS.]

A.

A. on Sir Charles Wogan, 421

A. (A.) on bells called skelets, 457

Beech trees never struck by lightning, 97
Cannon of France, 456

Chaperone, 446
Churchwarden query, 34
Crancelin, in heraldry, 457
Cuckoo oats, &c., 450
Essex saying, 97

Expedient, its earliest use, 477
Frith, a wood, 43

Games of swans, &c., 436

Greek custom as to horses, 153
Grumbold Hold, 115
Haydn queries, 467

Lasso, and similar weapons, 442
Lanterns of the dead, 115
Mark of Thor's hammer, 458
Modern Folk ballads, 209

Pews before the Reformation, 43
Prior's "Thief and Cordelier," 475
Salmagundi, 467

Salmon in the Thames, 479

Seals, Anglo-Saxon and mediæval, 445

Shaksperian criticisms, 231, 232

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Spartam, quam nactus es, orna," 444

Tedded grass, 43

Tout, its derivation, 429

Verifying quotations, &c., 290

Whittled down, a provincialism, 435
Wooden and stone altars in England, 499

A. (A. S.) on Card. Beton and Abp. Gawin Dun-
bar, 402

Bishop George de Athequa, 352

Campbell (Sir Alexander and Sir Hugh), 367
D'Olbreuse (Eleanor), 348

Guernsey, governors of, 328

Knox (Andrew), Bishop of Raphoe, 371

Knox (Thomas), Bishop of the Isles, 411

Kohl, antimony, 349

Lamont (Rev. David), 367

Longevity of clergymen, 453

A. (A. S.) on Montalembert (Count de), 328
Abauzit (Firmin), "Discourse on the Apocalypse,"

420

"Abel," an oratorio, author of the words, 297,
467

Abhba on Earl of Clonmell's Diary, 477

De Burgo's "Hibernia Dominicana," 457
Dobbs (Arthur), biography, 82
"Dublin University Magazine," 447
Downes's Tour through Cork and Ross, 82
Essay on Politeness," 437

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Family burying ground, 377

Fellowships in Trinity College, Dublin, 345
Kennedy (Rev. James), 241

Life of Prince Eugene of Savoy, 515
Literary plagiarisms, 523
Meath electioneering bill, 493
Paradin's "Devises Heroiques," 528

Petrie Collection of ancient music, 498
Portlock (Major-General), 489
Portlock (Capt. Nathaniel), 425
Proverb wanted, 117

Rundell (Mrs. Maria Eliza), 419

Spottiswoode (Abp. John and Bp. James), 415
Ulick, a Christian name, 136

Abraham aben Hhaüm, his MSS., 435

Ache on a quotation, 142

Acland (Rev. John), noticed, 320

Acrostic: Christ, 355

Adair (John) of Kilternan, 404, 442, 501-504

Adair (Robin), Esq., subject of the song, 404, 442,

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Adei, a sect, 240

"Adeste Fideles," composer of the tune, 312
Admiralty Domesday Book, 146

Anonymous Works:-

Adolphus (Gustavus), letter to Charles I., 294
Adolphus (John Leycester), " The Circuiteers," 6
A. (E. H.) on Samuel Burton, 73, 529

Hoods of Oxford and Cambridge, 517
Nicols (Rev. William), 356
Pholeys of Gambia, 12

Trevor (Sir Marcus), Vise. Dungannon, 55
Witty classical quotations, 310

Enigmata, Latin, 93, 257

Ævum, words derived from, 100

African, South, chart of the discovery, 498

Agg (John), satirical writer, 346

Agincourt battle, picture at Guildhall, 171

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Ainger (A.) on Chough and Crow," a glee, 243
Natter, German for adder, 125

Psalm xc. 9, 83

Quotation, 261

Swallows and the spring, 83

Alabarches, or Arabarches, 294.

Albert, Prince Consort, his arms, 457, 522; motto,
12, 64, 81

Albini Brito (Wm. de), 382, 505

Aldeburgh barony, 224

Alexander the Great's grant to the Sclavonians,

345

Al-Gazel, Mohammedan doctor, his birth, 401.
'Aλeús on Collins, author of To-morrow, 20

Cumming (James), F.S.A., 308

Dobbs' Trade and Improvement of Ireland, 64
Mount Athos, 487

Almack (Richard) on Mary, Queen of Scots, 321
Altars, early wooden and stone, 499
Altham (Ursula, Lady), death, 284
"Amateur's Magazine," 26, 64

Amen, a curious derivation of the word, 33

America, its first paper-mill, 222; Seneca's pro-
phecy of its discovery, 298, 368, 440
Americanisms: conjure and conjurations, 133
Anagram: Andreas Rivetus, 53
Ancestor worship, 212

Anderson's "Scottish Nation," 147
Andrewes (Bp. Lancelot), his will, 137

Andros (Sir Edmund), his arms, 345, 425
Aneroids, 297

Angelic vision of the dying, 448
Animals, the trials of, 155, 218

Anonymous Works:

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Art of Politicks, 164, 205

Arundines Devæ, 496

Autumn near the Rhine, 119

Bubble and Squeak, 323

Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, 514

Castle Builders, or History of Wm. Stephens,

514

Chronicle of the Kings of England, 300
Clara Chester, 204

Contest of the Twelve Nations, 518
Crambe Repetita, 323

Discourse, Historical, on the Revelations, 420
Edric, the Saxon, a play, 514

Education, especially of Young Gentlemen, 38

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Essay on Politeness, 437

Eugene (Prince) of Savoy, his Life, 515
Fellowships in Trinity College, Dublin, 345
Friend of Australia, 514
Godolphin, a play, 514
Grand Impostor, 50

Hermippus Redivivus, 100

Honour of Christ Vindicated, 133
"Irish Tutor," 479

Land of Promise, or Impressions of Australia,

514

Letter Box, by Oliver Oldstaffe, 321

Leprosy of Naaman, 55

Living and the Dead, 106

Meditations on Life and Death, 400, 448, 506

Post Boy Robbed of his Mail, 448
Proud Shepherd's Tragedy, 355

Resurrection, not Death, the Hope of the Be-
liever, 33, 203

Revelation of St. John and the Jewish Tem-
ple, 417

Royal Stripes, or a Kick from Yarmouth to
Wales, 346

Salmagundi, a Miscellany of Poetry, 322
Solomon's Song, poetical version, 1703, 322
Turkish Spy, 260

Antiphanes, passage in the Aphrodisian, 486
Ape leading in hell, 193, 289, 424
Apothecaries' Company's crest, 13

Appleton (W. S.) on Nicholas Bayley's family, 330
Archer (Master John), noticed, 55

Arden (Edward), related to Shakspeare, 352, 463,

492

Ardesoif (J. P.) inquired after, 435

Arland (Benedict), miniature painter, 336
Aristotle, in old Latin, 11

Aristotle's Politics, 475, 525

Arm, breaking the left, a punishment, 469
Arms, mottoes and coats of, 77
Arms of English royalty, 100

Arnold (Rev. Thomas Kerchever), death, 450
Arnulphus (Bishop), Life of Empress Maud, 116
Arundel Castle, its owlery, 512

Arundel Society's publications, 106
"Arundines Devæ," its author, 496
Ascot races forty years ago, 474
Aston (Joseph) of Manchester, 370
"Athenian Gazette," its contributors, 77
"Athenian Mercury," its contributors, 77
Athenry, or Athunry, its orthography, 499
Athequa (George de), Bishop of Llandaff, 352
Athos, Mount, its monastic libraries, 437, 487
Aubery (Mons.) and Du Val, 133

Audley (P. A.) on Cambridge villages, 212

Digby motto, 153

Epitaph on Thomas Adam, alias Welhowse,

239

Austin Friars' church, 376

Austrian motto, the five vowels, 222, 309
Austrian peerages, 320

Averroës, birth and death, 401

Avon, the Vale of, its population, 357
Axholme, the Isle of, 434, 507

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Ballard (Col.), his Christian name, 320
Balloons, their dimensions, 96, 200
Ballot," three blue beans," 297, 385, 444
Bankes (Geo.), Vicar of Cherryhinton, 43
Baptismal names, objectionable, 22, 105, 184
Barb to shave, 494

Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Prose Hymns, 33
Barberini vase, 22

Barcroft (John), Esq., 11

Barham (Francis), works, 36, 120

Barley, an exclamation, its derivation, 358
Barnes (Richard), Bishop of Nottingham, 196
Barons family of Watford, 376

Bartolozzi (Francesco), engraving, 377, 445
Barton (Bernard), Lord Jeffrey's letter to, 70
Basing House, notices of its sieges, 499
Basselin (Olivier), " Vaux de Vire," 25
Basset family of North Morton, Berks, 417
Bastard (John Pollexfen), M.P. for Devon, 198
Bastide's Ode to Louis XIV., 496
Batchelor (J. W.) on canine suicide, 515
Bates (Wm.) on Bezoar stones, 486

Blair's Grave, its frontispiece, 196
Chaldee MS. and Blackwood's Magazine, 314
Collier (Jeremy) on the Stage, &c., 38

Collins (John), author of "To-morrow," 17
Pamphlet, its etymology and meaning, 167
Battles in England, 398, 449, 488

Baxter (Thomas), "Circle Squared," 258, 348
Baxter (W. E.) on anonymous contributors, 238
Battles in England, 449
Callis (Robert), 204

Capell's Notes on Shakspeare, 77
Digby motto, 220

Martin family, 222

Preaching ministers suspended, 357
Quotation, 200

Sancroft family, 291

Sussex newspapers, 75

"To a Caged Skylark," a Poem, 515

Bayley (C. H.) on first book printed in Birming-
ham, 145

Bayley (Nicholas), family, 330

Bayly (T. H.), Latin version of his song, "I'd be a
Butterfly," 106

Baynbridge (H. A.) on Burnett families, 376
Becanceld councils, where holden, 215
Becket (Capt.), inquired after, 134

Beckington (Bp.), letters, 26

Bede (Cuthbert) on the "Amateur's Magazine," 64

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